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Home Dictionary Name: near Page: 2Adjoining
Adjoining, conterminous with, see Mayor, etc., of New Plymouth v. Taranaki Eectric Power Board, 1933 AC 653, but the word sometimes means near or neighbouring; 'adjacent' is not as precise, and this word generally, includes places which are near or neighbouring, ibid.; and see Ecclesiastical Commrs.' Case, 1936 Ch 430.Adjoining includes abutting on, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 726, p. 523....
Presbyopia
A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of vision so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses Called also presbytia...
Peri
A prefix used to signify around by near over beyond or to give an intensive sense as perimeter the measure around perigee point near the earth periergy work beyond what is needed perispherical quite spherical...
Parotid
Situated near the ear applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear...
palatalized
Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as y or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as ch in chin or j in gin...
Nearhand
Near near at hand closely...
Central
Relating to the center situated in or near the center or middle containing the center of or pertaining to the parts near the center equidistant or equally accessible from certain points...
Feldspar
A name given to a group of minerals closely related in crystalline form and all silicates of alumina with either potash soda lime or in one case baryta They occur in crystals and crystalline masses vitreous in luster and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other or nearly so The colors are usually white or nearly white flesh red bluish or greenish...
Carolin
A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars also a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars...
Penannular
Nearly annular having nearly the form of a ring...
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